CHICAGO (CBS) — The Chicago Public Schools are moving to fire a principal and discipline 15 other employees, following disclosures by the CBS 2 Investigators and Better Government Association of apparent fraud in the free lunch program.

Now we’ve learned that a yearlong investigation by CPS’s inspector general has confirmed our findings and more.

The Chicago Public Schools spend more than a $100 million on free lunches to feed low income children.

But at the North Grand High School, CBS 2 and the Better Government Association found, for example, that the children of math teachers Maria Mouroukos and Virgilio Santos were getting free lunches

“How can you qualify for the free lunch program with a salary like yours. More than $70,000?” Zekman asked Santos last year.

CBS 2 has also learned that dismissal charges against Ayala allege that she allowed false invoices to be submitted by a school vendor and allowed a breakdown of Board of Education rules to occur — such as tuition fraud, residency violations, falsified attendance records abuse of sick time and comp time.

Shaw praised the work of the CPS inspector general in this investigation saying, “the only way that you hold people properly accountable is when an independent inspector general Investigates.”

Pulitzer-prize winning reporter Pam Zekman serves on CBS 2 Chicago’s investigative team, a position she has held since 1981. During that time, her thorough investigations have earned every major award in television reporting and resulted in...